Jovian and Martian Valentine 2018

Captioned Image Release No. MSSS-518 — 14 February 2018

NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/Malin Space Science Systems

(Left) Subframe of the full JunoCam image JNCE_2017244_08C00107_V01. (Right) Subframe of the full CTX image K02_05116_2021_XI_22N271W. North is to the upper left and illumination is from the bottom left.

Jovian and Martian Valentine 2018

Happy St. Valentine’s Day from the Juno JunoCam and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Context Camera (CTX) teams! This Valentine’s Day we are celebrating with two images, one from Jupiter (left) and one from Mars (right)!

The image on the left is a scaled and color enhanced image of a heart-shaped cloud feature in Jupiter’s atmosphere taken by JunoCam on the Juno spacecraft on September 1, 2017. At the time of acquisition, this feature was located at approximately 79.16°N latitude with an altitude of 41726.5 km near Jupiter’s terminator. The feature is approximately 2,500 km wide.

The picture on the right is of an approximately 4 km wide mesa landform on Mars taken by CTX on the MRO spacecraft on February 11, 2018. This feature is located at 23.75°N, 89.09°W in northern Isidis Planitia.

Over the past 19 years, Malin Space Science Systems has featured other heart-shaped martian landforms on Valentine's Day in images acquired by MRO CTX and the Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC). These previous examples can be viewed by clicking on the following links:

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